Method, Apparatus, and System for Processing Audio Data

ABSTRACT

A method for processing an audio signal includes: receiving a bitstream corresponding to the audio signal; obtaining a silence insertion descriptor (SID) type of a current frame of the audio signal by decoding the bitstream; obtaining a low-band parameter of the current frame by decoding the bitstream; obtaining a low-band signal of the current frame based on the low-band parameter; obtaining, based on the SID type of the current frame, a high-band parameter of the current frame; obtaining a high-band signal of the current frame based on the high-band parameter; and obtaining a synthesis signal of the current frame based on the low-band signal and the high-band signal.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No.16/697,822, filed on Nov. 27, 2019, which is a continuation of U.S.patent application Ser. No. 15/867,977, filed on Jan. 11, 2018, now U.S.Pat. No. 10,529,345, which is a continuation of U.S. patent applicationSer. No. 15/188,518, filed on Jun. 21, 2016, now U.S. Pat. No.9,892,738, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No.14/318,899, filed on Jun. 30, 2014, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,406,304, whichis a continuation of International Patent Application No.PCT/CN2012/087812, filed on Dec. 28, 2012, which claims priority toChinese Patent Application No. 201110455836.7, filed on Dec. 30, 2011.All of the aforementioned patent applications are hereby incorporated byreference in their entireties.

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TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the field of communicationstechnologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, and a systemfor processing audio data.

BACKGROUND

In the field of digital communications, there are extensive applicationrequirements for transmission of speeches, images, audios, and videos,such as mobile phone calls, audio/video conferencing, broadcasttelevision, and multimedia entertainment. A speech is digitized, andthen transferred from one terminal to another terminal through a voicecommunication network. Herein the terminals may be mobile phones,digital phone terminals, or voice terminals or any other types. Examplesof digital phone terminals are Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)phones or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) phones, computers,and cable communication phones. To reduce resources occupied in theprocess of storing or transmitting audio signals, a sending end performscompression processing on audio signals before transmitting the audiosignals to a receiving end, and the receiving end performs decompressionprocessing to restore the audio signals and play the audio signals.

In voice communication, speech is included in only about 40% of thetime, and at other times, there is only silence or background noise. Tosave transmission bandwidths and avoid unnecessary consumption ofbandwidths in a silence or background noise period, a Discontinuoustransmission system/Comfort Noise Generation (DTX/CNG) technologyemerges. Simply, DTX/CNG means not encoding noise frames continuously,but performing encoding only once at an interval of several frames in anoise/silence period according to a policy, where an encoded bit rate isgenerally much lower than a bit rate of speech frame encoding. A noiseframe encoded at such a low rate is referred to as a Silence InsertionDescriptor frame (SID). A decoder restores continuous background noiseframes at the decoding end according to discontinuously received SIDs.Such continuously restored background noise is not a faithfulreproduction of background noise of an encoding end, but aims to avoidcausing quality deterioration in hearing as much as possible, so that auser feels comfortable when hearing the noise. The restored backgroundnoise is referred to as Comfort Noise (CN), and the method for restoringthe CN at the decoding end is referred to as comfort noise generation.

International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication StandardizationSector (ITU-T) G.718 is a new standard wideband codec, which includes awideband DTX/CNG system. The system may send an SID according to a fixedinterval, and may also adaptively adjust the SID sending intervalaccording to an estimated noise level. An SID frame of G.718 includes 16immittance spectral pair (ISP) parameters and excitation energyparameters. This group of ISP parameters represents a spectral envelopeon the bandwidth of an entire wide band, and an excitation energy isobtained by an analysis filter represented by this group of ISPparameters. At the decoding end, the G.718 estimates, according to ISPparameters obtained by decoding an SID in a CNG state, a linearprediction coefficient (LPC) required for CNG, estimates, according toexcitation energy parameters obtained by decoding the SID frame, anexcitation energy required for CNG, and uses gain-adjusted white noiseto excite a CNG synthesis filter to obtain a reconstructed CN.

However, for a super-wideband spectral envelope, the bandwidth of thesuper wide band is extremely wide, in a super-wideband DTX/CNG system,more calculation loads and bits need to be consumed to calculate andencode the added dozen of ISP parameters, because a completesuper-wideband spectral envelope needs to be encoded for an SID. Becausehigh-band signals of noise (which refers to a frequency range above thewide band herein) are generally not perceptually sensitive in hearing,calculation loads and bits consumed for this part of signals are notcost-effective, thereby reducing the encoding efficiency of the codec.

SUMMARY

To solve a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem, embodimentsof the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and a systemfor processing audio data. The technical solutions are as follows.

According to one aspect, a method for processing audio data is providedand includes: obtaining a noise frame of an audio signal; decomposingthe noise frame into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-bandsignal; and encoding the noise low-band signal using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism; transmitting the encoded noiselow-band signal using the first discontinuous transmission mechanism;encoding the noise high-band signal using a second discontinuoustransmission mechanism; and transmitting the encoded noise high-bandsignal using the second discontinuous transmission mechanism, where apolicy for sending a first SID of the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism is different from a policy for sending a second SID of thesecond discontinuous transmission mechanism, or where a policy forencoding a first SID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanismis different from a policy for encoding a second SID of the seconddiscontinuous transmission mechanism.

According to one aspect, a method for processing audio data is providedand includes: obtaining, by a decoder, an SID; determining whether theSID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter; when theSID includes the low-band parameter, decoding the SID to obtain a noiselow-band parameter, locally generating a noise high-band parameter, andobtaining a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter; when the SID includes the high-band parameter, decoding theSID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generating a noiselow-band parameter, and obtaining a second CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generatednoise low-band parameter; and when the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter, decoding the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtaining athird CN frame according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding.

According to another aspect, an apparatus for encoding audio data isprovided and includes: an obtaining module configured to obtain a noiseframe of an audio signal, and decompose the noise frame into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal; and a transmitting moduleconfigured to encode the noise low-band signal using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism and transmit the encoded noiselow-band signal using the first discontinuous transmission mechanism.The transmitting module is further configured to encode the noisehigh-band signal using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism andtransmit the encoded noise high-band signal using the seconddiscontinuous transmission mechanism, where a policy for sending a firstSID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanism is different froma policy for sending a second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism, or where a policy for encoding a first SID ofthe first discontinuous transmission mechanism is different from apolicy for encoding a second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism.

According to another aspect, an apparatus for decoding audio data isprovided and includes: an obtaining module configured to obtain an SID,and determine whether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or ahigh-band parameter; a first decoding module configured to, when the SIDobtained by the obtaining module includes the low-band parameter, decodethe SID to obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noisehigh-band parameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter; a second decoding module configured to, when theSID obtained by the obtaining module includes the high-band parameter,decode the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate anoise low-band parameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generatednoise low-band parameter; and a third decoding module configured to,when the SID obtained by the obtaining module includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter, decode the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtain a thirdCN frame according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding.

According to another aspect, a system for processing audio data isprovided and includes the foregoing apparatus for encoding audio dataand the foregoing apparatus for decoding audio data.

The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the presentdisclosure bring the following beneficial effects. A current noise frameis decomposed into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal,then the noise low-band signal is encoded and transmitted using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal isencoded and transmitted using a second discontinuous transmissionmechanism. Additionally, a decoder obtains an SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-bandparameter, and different noise decoding manners are used according todifferent determining results. In this way, different encoding anddecoding processing manners are used for the high-band signal and thelow-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bitsmay be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of acodec, and bits that are saved may help to achieve an objective ofreducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality,thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the presentdisclosure more clearly, the following briefly introduces theaccompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments. Theaccompanying drawings in the following description show merely someembodiments of the present disclosure, and a person of ordinary skill inthe art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawingswithout creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 1 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 2 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 3 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 4 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for encoding audio dataaccording to Embodiment 6 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of another apparatus for encoding audiodata according to Embodiment 6 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for decoding audio dataaccording to Embodiment 7 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another apparatus for decoding audiodata according to Embodiment 7 of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a system for processing audio dataaccording to Embodiment 8 of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of thepresent disclosure clearer, the following further describes theembodiments of the present disclosure in detail with reference to theaccompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1

Referring to FIG. 1, this embodiment provides a method for processingaudio data, where the method includes the following steps.

101. Obtain a noise frame of an audio signal, and decompose the noiseframe into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal.

102. Encode and transmit the noise low-band signal using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism, and encode and transmit the noisehigh-band signal using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism,where a policy for sending a first SID of the first discontinuoustransmission mechanism is different from a policy for sending a secondSID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism, or where apolicy for encoding a first SID of the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism is different from a policy for encoding a second SID of thesecond discontinuous transmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, the first SID includes a low-band parameter of thenoise frame, and the second SID includes a low-band parameter or ahigh-band parameter of the noise frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal using a second discontinuous transmission mechanismincludes: determining whether the noise high-band signal has a presetspectral structure, if yes, and a sending condition of the policy forsending the second SID is satisfied, encoding an SID of the noisehigh-band signal using the policy for encoding the second SID, andsending the SID; and if not, determining that the noise high-band signaldoes not need to be encoded and transmitted.

The determining whether the noise high-band signal has a preset spectralstructure includes: obtaining a spectrum of the noise high-band signal;dividing the spectrum into at least two sub-bands; and if an averageenergy of any first sub-band in the sub-bands is not smaller than anaverage energy of a second sub-band in the sub-bands, where a frequencyband in which the second sub-band is located is higher than a frequencyband in which the first sub-band is located, determining that the noisehigh-band signal has no preset spectral structure; otherwise,determining that the noise high-band signal has a preset spectralstructure.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal using a second discontinuous transmission mechanismincludes: generating a deviation according to a first ratio and a secondratio, where the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe, and where the second ratio is a ratio of an energy of a noisehigh-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at a momentwhen an SID including a noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame; and determining whether the deviation reaches apreset threshold, if yes, encoding an SID of the noise high-band signalusing the policy for encoding the second SID, and sending the SID, andif not, determining that the noise high-band signal does not need to beencoded and transmitted.

Optionally, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that the first ratio is a ratio of an instant energy ofthe noise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-bandsignal of the noise frame. Correspondingly, that the second ratio is aratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when an SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame includes that thesecond ratio is a ratio of an instant energy of the noise high-bandsignal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signal at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame.

Alternatively, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that the first ratio is a ratio of a weighted averageenergy of noise high-band signals of the noise frame and a noise frameprior to the noise frame to a weighted average energy of noise low-bandsignals of the noise frame and the noise frame prior to the noise frame.Correspondingly, that the second ratio is a ratio of an energy of anoise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when an SID including a noise high-band parameter is sent lasttime before the noise frame includes that the second ratio is a ratio ofa weighted average energy of high-band signals to a weighted averageenergy of low-band signals of a noise frame and a noise frame prior tothe noise frame at the moment when the SID including the noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame.

In this embodiment, the generating a deviation according to a firstratio and a second ratio includes: separately calculating a logarithmicvalue of the first ratio and a logarithmic value of the second ratio;and calculating an absolute value of a difference between thelogarithmic value of the first ratio and the logarithmic value of thesecond ratio, to obtain the deviation.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal using a second discontinuous transmission mechanismincludes: determining whether a spectral structure of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame, in comparison with an averagespectral structure of noise high-band signals before the noise frame,satisfies a preset condition; if yes, encoding an SID of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and sending the SID; and if not, determining that the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame does not need to be encoded andtransmitted.

The average spectral structure of the noise high-band signals before thenoise frame includes a weighted average of spectrums of the noisehigh-band signals before the noise frame.

In this embodiment, the sending condition in the policy for sending thesecond SID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism furtherincludes the first discontinuous transmission mechanism satisfying acondition for sending the first SID.

The method embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal, then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. In thisway, different processing manners are used for the high-band signal andthe low-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encodedbits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality ofa codec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objective ofreducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality,thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

Embodiment 2

Referring to FIG. 2, this embodiment provides a method for processingaudio data, where the method includes the following steps.

201. A decoder obtains an SID, and determines whether the SID includes alow-band parameter or a high-band parameter.

202. If the SID includes the low-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noise high-bandparameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter.

203. If the SID includes the high-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate a noise low-bandparameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to the noise high-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise low-bandparameter.

204. If the SID includes the high-band parameter and the low-bandparameter, decode the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter and anoise low-band parameter, and obtain a third CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding.

Optionally, in this embodiment, if the SID includes the low-bandparameter, before the decoding the SID to obtain a noise low-bandparameter, locally generating a noise high-band parameter, and obtaininga first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameter, the methodfurther includes, if the decoder is in a first comfort noise generation(CNG) state, entering, by the decoder, a second CNG state.

Optionally, in this embodiment, if the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter, before the decoding the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, andobtaining a third CN frame according to the noise high-band parameterand the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding, the methodfurther includes, if the decoder is in a second CNG state, entering, bythe decoder, a first CNG state.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the determining whether the SID includesa low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter includes: if thenumber of bits of the SID is smaller than a preset first threshold,determining that the SID includes the high-band parameter; if the numberof bits of the SID is greater than a preset first threshold and smallerthan a preset second threshold, determining that the SID includes thelow-band parameter; and if the number of bits of the SID is greater thana preset second threshold and smaller than a preset third threshold,determining that the SID includes the high-band parameter and thelow-band parameter. Alternatively, the determining whether the SIDincludes a low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter includes: ifthe SID includes a first identifier, determining that the SID includesthe high-band parameter; if the SID includes a second identifier,determining that the SID includes the low-band parameter; and if the SIDincludes a third identifier, determining that the SID includes thelow-band parameter and the high-band parameter.

In this embodiment, the locally generating a noise high-band parameterincludes: separately obtaining a weighted average energy of a noisehigh-band signal and a synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID; and obtaining thenoise high-band signal according to the obtained weighted average energyof the noise high-band signal and the obtained synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDincludes: obtaining an energy of a low-band signal of the first CN frameaccording to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding;calculating a ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to anenergy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when an SID including ahigh-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain a first ratio;obtaining, according to the energy of the low-band signal of the firstCN frame and the first ratio, an energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID; and performing weighted averagingon the energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID and an energy of a high-band signal of a locally buffered CNframe, to obtain the weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where the weightedaverage energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CN frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the calculating a ratio of an energy ofa noise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when an SID including a high-band parameter is received beforethe SID, to obtain a first ratio, includes: calculating a ratio of aninstant energy of the noise high-band signal to an instant energy of thenoise low-band signal at the moment when the SID including the high-bandparameter is received before the SID, to obtain the first ratio; orcalculating a ratio of a weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal to a weighted average energy of the noise low-band signal at themoment when the SID including the high-band parameter is received beforethe SID, to obtain the first ratio.

When the energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is greater than an energy of a high-band signalof a previous CN frame that is locally buffered, the energy of thehigh-band signal of the previous CN frame that is locally buffered isupdated at a first rate. Otherwise, the energy of the high-band signalof the previous CN frame that is locally buffered is updated at a secondrate, where the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDincludes: selecting a high-band signal of a speech frame with a minimumhigh-band signal energy from speech frames within a preset period oftime before the SID, and obtaining, according to an energy of thehigh-band signal of the speech frame with the minimum high-band signalenergy among the speech frames, the weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where theweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CNframe; or selecting high-band signals of N speech frames with ahigh-band signal energy smaller than a preset threshold from speechframes within a preset period of time before the SID, and obtaining,according to a weighted average energy of the high-band signals of the Nspeech frames, the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signalat the moment corresponding to the SID, where the weighted averageenergy of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to theSID is a high-band signal energy of the first CN frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes: distributing M Immittance Spectral Frequency (ISF)coefficients or ISP coefficients or Line Spectral Frequency (LSF)coefficients or Line Spectral Pair (LSP) coefficients in a frequencyrange corresponding to a high-band signal; performing randomizationprocessing on the M coefficients, where a feature of the randomizationis causing each coefficient among the M coefficients to graduallyapproach a target value corresponding to each coefficient, where thetarget value is a value in a preset range adjacent to a coefficientvalue, where the target value of each coefficient among the Mcoefficients changes after every N frames, and where both the M and theN are natural numbers; and obtaining, according to the filtercoefficients obtained by randomization processing, the synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes: obtaining M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients orLSF coefficients or LSP coefficients of a locally buffered noisehigh-band signal; performing randomization processing on the Mcoefficients, where a feature of the randomization is causing eachcoefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, and where thetarget value of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes afterevery N frames; and obtaining, according to the filter coefficientsobtained by randomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficientof the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, in this embodiment, before the obtaining a first CN frameaccording to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding and thelocally generated noise high-band parameter, the method furtherincludes, when history frames adjacent to the SID are encoded speechframes, if an average energy of high-band signals or a part of high-bandsignals that are decoded from the encoded speech frames is smaller thanan average energy of noise high-band signals or a part of the noisehigh-band signals that are generated locally, multiplying noisehigh-band signals of subsequent L frames starting from the SID by asmoothing factor smaller than 1, to obtain a new weighted average energyof the locally generated noise high-band signals. Correspondingly, theobtaining a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameterincludes obtaining a fourth CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding, the synthesis filter coefficient of thenoise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, and thenew weighted average energy of the locally generated noise high-bandsignals.

The method embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects, a decoder obtains an SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-bandparameter. If the SID includes the low-band parameter, the decoderdecodes the SID to obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generatesa noise high-band parameter, and obtains a first CN frame according tothe noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locallygenerated noise high-band parameter. If the SID includes the high-bandparameter, the decoder decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter, locally generates a noise low-band parameter, and obtains asecond CN frame according to the noise high-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise low-band parameter. If the SIDincludes the high-band parameter and the low-band parameter, the decoderdecodes the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter and a noiselow-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding. In this way, different processing manners are used for thehigh-band signal and the low-band signal, calculation complexity may bereduced and encoded bits may be saved under a premise of not loweringsubjective quality of a codec, and bits that are saved help to achievean objective of reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overallencoding quality, thereby solving a super-wideband encoding andtransmission problem.

Embodiment 3

This embodiment provides a method for processing audio data. At anencoding end, regardless of a low-band CNG noise spectrum or a high-bandCNG noise spectrum, generally, a harmonic structure is lost, andtherefore, in a CNG high-band signal, what is perceptually effective onhearing is mainly an energy of the CNG high-band signal, and not aspectral structure of the CNG high-band signal. Therefore, in DTXtransmission of a super-wideband signal, in many cases, it isunnecessary to transmit a high-band signal spectrum in an SID, instead,a proper method may be used to construct a high-band spectrum locally ata decoding end. The locally constructed high-band spectrum will notcause an obvious perceptual distortion. In this way, calculation loadsand bits for calculating and encoding the high-band spectrum are savedat the encoding end. However, for other noise signals, a harmonicstructure may exist in a high-band signal thereof, and constructing ahigh-band spectrum locally at the decoding end alone may cause a problemof perceptual quality deterioration in switching between a CNG segmentand a speech segment. Therefore, for such noise, a spectral parameterneeds to be transmitted in an SID. It can be seen that a DTX/CNG systemthat takes both efficiency and quality into account should be capable ofadaptively selecting to encode or selecting not to encode a high-bandspectral parameter in an SID at the encoding end according to ahigh-band feature of background noise, and reconstructing a CNG frame atthe decoding end using different decoding methods according to differenttypes of SIDs. In this embodiment, a method for processing audio data isprovided and includes the following a noise high-band spectrum isanalyzed and classified, a decoder blindly constructs a high-band signalspectrum, when an SID does not include a high-band energy parameter, thedecoder estimates a high-band signal energy, and the decoder switchesbetween different CNG modules, and so on. Referring to FIG. 3, a methodfor processing audio data at an encoder end according to this embodimentincludes the following steps.

301. An encoder obtains a noise frame of an audio signal, and decomposesthe noise frame into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-bandsignal.

In this embodiment, because of different encoding rules of the encoder,the encoder obtains a noise frame of an audio signal, and the noiseframe may be a current noise frame, or may be a noise frame buffered atthe encoder end, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.In this embodiment, super-wideband input audio signals sampled at 32kilohertz (kHz) are used as an example. The encoder first performsframing processing on the input audio signals, for example, 20milliseconds (ms) (or 640 sampling points) is used as a frame. For thecurrent frame (in this embodiment, the current frame refers to a currentframe to be encoded), the encoder first performs high-pass filtering.Generally, a passband refers to frequencies higher than 50 Hertz (Hz).The high-pass filtered current frame is decomposed into a low-bandsignal so and a high-band signal s₁ by a quadrature mirror filter (QMF)analysis filter. The low-band signal so is sampled at 16 kHz, andrepresents a 0-8 kHz spectrum of the current frame. The high-band signalSi is also sampled at 16 kHz, and represents an 8-16 kHz spectrum of thecurrent frame. When a Voice Activity Detector (VAD) indicates that thecurrent frame is a foreground signal frame, that is, a speech signalframe, the encoder performs speech encoding on the current frame. TheVAD indicates that the encoder enters a DTX working state when thecurrent frame is a noise frame. In this embodiment, the noise framerefers to either a background noise frame or a silence frame.

In this embodiment, in the DTX working state, a DTX controller decides,according to an SID sending policy, whether to encode and send an SID ofthe low-band signal of the current frame. In this embodiment, the policyfor sending an SID of a low-band signal is as follows (1) sending an SIDin a first noise frame after an encoded speech frame, and setting an SIDsending flag flag_(SID) to 1, (2) in a noise period, sending an SIDframe in an N^(th) frame after each SID frame, and setting flag_(SID) to1 in the frame, where N is an integer greater than 1 and is externallyinput to the encoder, and (3) in the noise period, sending no SID inother frames, and setting flag_(SID) to 0.

302. Determine whether the high-band signal of the current noise framesatisfies a preset encoding and transmission condition, if yes, performstep 304, if not, perform step 303.

In this embodiment, the determining whether the high-band signal of thecurrent noise frame satisfies a preset encoding and transmissioncondition includes determining whether the noise high-band signal has apreset spectral structure, if yes, and a sending condition of a policyfor sending the second SID is satisfied, encoding an SID of the noisehigh-band signal using the policy for encoding the second SID, andsending the SID, and if not, determining that the noise high-band signaldoes not need to be encoded and transmitted. The determining whether thenoise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure includesobtaining a spectrum of the noise high-band signal, dividing thespectrum into at least two sub-bands, and if an average energy of anyfirst sub-band in the sub-bands is not smaller than an average energy ofa second sub-band in the sub-bands, where a frequency band in which thesecond sub-band is located is higher than a frequency band in which thefirst sub-band is located, determining that the noise high-band signalhas no preset spectral structure, otherwise, determining that the noisehigh-band signal has a preset spectral structure.

In this embodiment, in the DTX working state, the encoder performsspectral analysis on the high-band signal s₁ of the current noise frameto determine whether s₁ has an apparent spectral structure, that is, apreset spectral structure. A specific method in this embodiment is asfollows down sampling to 12.8 kHz is performed on s₁, and 256-point FastFourier Transform (FFT) is performed on the down-sampled signal toobtain a spectrum C(i), where i=0, . . . 127. C(i) is divided into foursub-bands of an equal width, and an energy E(i) of each sub-band iscalculated. Each sub-band is any first sub-band mentioned above

${{E(i)} = {\sum\limits_{i = {l{(i)}}}^{h{(i)}}\;{C(i)}}},$

where i=0, . . . , 3, l(i) and h(i) respectively represent an upperboundary and a lower boundary of the i^(th) sub-band, l(i)={0, 32, 64,96}, and h(i)={31, 63, 95, 127}. Whether the following condition issatisfied is checked:

E(i)≥∀E(j)j>i  (1)

where E(j) is the second sub-band mentioned above. If the foregoingformula (1) is satisfied, that is, if the energy of any first sub-bandin the sub-bands is not smaller than the energy of the second sub-bandin the sub-bands, it is considered that the high-band signal does nothave an apparent spectral structure, otherwise, the high-band signal hasan apparent spectral structure. If the high-band signal has an apparentspectral structure, a DTX policy is sending a high-band parameter. Inthis embodiment, if a high-band parameter sending flag flag_(hb) is not1, flag_(hb)=1 is set next time when flag_(SID)=1, otherwise,flag_(hb)=0.

In this embodiment, when the SID sending condition is satisfied, whetherit is necessary to encode and transmit the high-band signal of thecurrent noise frame may be determined using the spectral structure ofthe high-band signal of the current noise frame, and the determiningwhether the noise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure andwhether the noise low-band signal satisfies the SID sending condition isused as a first determining condition. Optionally, in this embodiment,the determining whether the high-band signal of the current noise framesatisfies a preset encoding and sending condition includes generating adeviation according to a first ratio and a second ratio, where the firstratio is a ratio of an energy of the noise high-band signal to an energyof the noise low-band signal of the noise frame, and the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when an SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame, and determiningwhether the deviation reaches a preset threshold, if yes, encoding anSID of the noise high-band signal using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and sending the SID, and if not, determining that the noisehigh-band signal does not need to be encoded and transmitted.Optionally, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that the first ratio is a ratio of an instant energy ofthe noise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-bandsignal of the noise frame, and correspondingly, that the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when an SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame includes that thesecond ratio is a ratio of an instant energy of the noise high-bandsignal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signal at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame. Alternatively, that the first ratio is a ratioof an energy of the noise high-band signal to an energy of the noiselow-band signal of the noise frame includes that the first ratio is aratio of a weighted average energy of noise high-band signals of thenoise frame and a noise frame prior to the noise frame to a weightedaverage energy of noise low-band signals of the noise frame and thenoise frame prior to the noise frame, and correspondingly, that thesecond ratio is a ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to anenergy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when an SID including anoise high-band parameter is sent last time before the noise frameincludes that the second ratio is a ratio of a weighted average energyof high-band signals to a weighted average energy of low-band signals ofa noise frame and a noise frame prior to the noise frame at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame. In this embodiment, preferably, the generating adeviation according to a first ratio and a second ratio includesseparately calculating a logarithmic value of the first ratio and alogarithmic value of the second ratio, and calculating an absolute valueof a difference between the logarithmic value of the first ratio and thelogarithmic value of the second ratio, to obtain the deviation.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the determining whether the deviationreaches a preset threshold may be implemented in the following manner.

In the DTX working state, the encoder separately calculates logarithmicenergies e₁ and e₀ of the high-band signal s₁ and low-band signal so ofthe current frame.

e _(x)=10·log₁₀(Σs _(x)(i)²)x=0,1i=0,1, . . . ,319  (2)

Long-term moving averages e_(1a) and e_(0a) of e₁ and e₀ at the encodingend are updated:

e _(xa) =e _(xa) ⁽⁻¹⁾+α·sign[e _(xa) −e _(xa) ⁽⁻¹⁾]·MIN └|e _(xa) −e_(xa) ⁽⁻¹⁾|,3┘x=0,1  (3)

where sign[⋅] represents a sign function, MIN[⋅] represents a minimumfunction, |⋅| represents an absolute value function, form x⁽⁻⁾represents a value of a previous frame x, and α=0.1 is a forgettingfactor that decides whether an updating speed is high or low. Theprevious frame is the SID that is sent last time before the currentnoise frame and includes the noise high-band parameter. In thisembodiment, an update magnitude of e_(1a) and e_(0a) is limited. If anenergy variation between e_(x) of the current noise frame and e_(xa) ofthe previous frame is greater than 3 decibels (dB), e_(xa) of thecurrent frame is updated by 3 dB. When the encoder enters the DTXworking state for the first time, e_(xa) is initialized as e_(x) of thecurrent frame. The encoder checks whether a deviation between the ratio(namely, the first ratio) of the energy of the high-band signal to theenergy of the low-band signal of the current noise frame and the ratio(the second ratio) of the energy of the high band to the energy of thelow band at the moment when the SID including the high-band parameter issent last time reaches an extent, that is, checks whether the followingcondition is satisfied:

|(e _(0a) −e _(1a))−(e _(0a) ⁻ −e _(1a) ⁻)|>4.5  (4)

where e_(0a) ⁻ and e_(1a) ⁻ respectively represent a high-bandlogarithmic energy and a low-band logarithmic energy at the moment whenthe SID frame including the high-band parameter is sent last time. Ifthe foregoing formula (4) is satisfied, the noise high-band signal needsto be encoded and transmitted. If the high-band parameter sending flagflag_(hb)=0, flag_(hb)=1 is set.

In this embodiment, long-term moving averaging is one type of weightedaverage calculation, which is not specifically limited in thisembodiment.

In this embodiment, the determining whether the deviation reaches apreset threshold may be used as a second determining condition. In aspecific implementation process, to determine whether the noisehigh-band signal needs to be encoded and transmitted, either the firstdetermining condition or the second determining condition just needs tobe determined, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, the second determining condition is optional. Apurpose of performing this step is to assist a decoding end in locallyestimating the energy of the high-band noise according to the energy ofthe noise low band and the ratio of the energy of the noise high band tothe energy of the noise low band at the moment when the SID includingthe high-band parameter is sent last time. Specifically, if thedeviation is not calculated at the encoding end, a speech frame with aminimum high-band signal energy may be obtained at the decoding end fromspeech frames within a period of time before the current noise frame,and the energy of the current high-band noise is estimated locallyaccording to an energy of a high-band signal of the speech frame withthe minimum high-band signal energy among the speech frames within theperiod of time before the current noise frame. For example, the energyof the high-band signal of the speech frame with the minimum high-bandsignal energy among the speech frames within the period of time beforethe current noise frame is selected as the energy of the currenthigh-band noise. Alternatively, high-band signals of N speech frameswith a high-band signal energy smaller than a preset threshold areselected from speech frames within a preset period of time before theSID, and the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID is obtained according to a weightedaverage energy of the high-band signals of the N speech frames.Specifically, no limitation is set in this embodiment.

303. Transmit the noise low-band signal using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, preferably, the transmitting the noise low-bandsignal using a first discontinuous transmission mechanism includes, inthe DTX working state, the encoder performs 16^(th)-order linearprediction analysis on the low-band signal so of the current noiseframe, and obtains 16 LPCs lpc(i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 15. The LPCsare transformed to ISP coefficients to obtain 16 ISP coefficientsisp(i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 15, and the ISP coefficients are buffered.If an SID is encoded in the current frame, that is, flag_(SID)=1, amedian ISP coefficient is searched in buffered ISP coefficients of Nhistory frames including the current frame. A method is as follows,first, calculate a distance δ from an ISP coefficient of each frame toan ISP coefficient of another frame:

$\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{\delta_{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 0}^{{- N} + 1}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{15}\left( {{ls{p^{(k)}(i)}} - {ls{p^{(j)}(i)}}} \right)^{2}}}} & {{j \neq k},{k = 0},{- 1},{.\;.\;.}\;,{{- N} + 1},}\end{matrix} & (5)\end{matrix}$

then, select an ISP coefficient of a frame with the smallest δ as an ISPcoefficient isp_(SID)(i) to be encoded, where i=0, . . . , 15, transformisp_(SID)(i) to an ISF coefficient isf_(SID)(i), quantize theisf_(SID)(i), obtain and encapsulate a group of quantized indexesidx_(ISF) into the SID, locally decode the idx_(ISF), obtain a decodedISF coefficient isf′(i), where i=0, . . . , 15, transform isf′(i) to anISP coefficient isp′(i), where i=0, . . . , 15, buffer the isp′(i), foreach noise frame, update a long-term moving average of the decoded ISPcoefficients of the encoding end using the buffered isp′(i):

isp_(a)(i)=α·isp_(a) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·isp′(i)i=0,1, . . . 15  (6)

where preferably, α=0.9, and isp_(a)(i) is initialized as isp′(i) of afirst SID, transform isp_(a)(i) to an LPC lpc_(a)(i), obtain an analysisfilter A(Z), filter the low-band signal so of each noise frame by theA(Z) to obtain a residual signal r(i), where i=0, 1, . . . 319, andcalculate a logarithmic residual energy e_(r):

$\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{e_{r} = {\log_{2}\left( {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}{r(i)}^{2}} \right)}} & {{i = 0},1,{.\;.\;.\; 319.}}\end{matrix} & (7)\end{matrix}$

In this embodiment, e_(r) is buffered. When the flag_(SID) of thecurrent noise frame is 1, a weighted average logarithmic energy e_(SID)is calculated according to buffered e_(r) of M history frames includingthe current noise frame:

${e_{SID} = {\frac{\sum\limits_{k = 0}^{{- M} + 1}\;{{w_{1}(k)} \cdot e_{r}^{(k)}}}{\sum\limits_{k = 0}^{{- M} + 1}\;{w_{1}(k)}} - 1.5}},$

where w₁(k) is a group of M-dimensional positive coefficients, and a sumthereof is smaller than 1. e_(SID) is quantized, and a quantized indexidx_(e) is obtained.

In this embodiment, in the DTX working state, when flag_(SID)=1, ifflag_(hb)=0, only a low-band parameter is encoded and sent in an SIDframe, and in this case, the SID frame is formed of the idx_(ISF) andidx_(e), and is referred to as a small SID frame for convenience.

In this embodiment, the policy for encoding and transmitting a noiselow-band signal is not described in detail in this embodiment. In thisembodiment, the noise high-band signal of the current noise frame doesnot need to be encoded, and only the noise low-band signal is encoded.Therefore, a calculation load is reduced at the encoding end, andtransmission bits are saved.

304. Transmit the noise low-band signal using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and transmit the noise high-band signal using asecond discontinuous transmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, if flag_(hb)=1, in addition that a low-bandparameter needs to be encoded, a high-band parameter also needs to beencoded in an SID. The encoding of a low-band parameter of low-bandnoise is the same as the encoding mode in step 303, and details are notrepeatedly described in this embodiment. In this embodiment, preferably,the method for encoding a high-band parameter is as follows, only whenthe encoder is in the DTX working state and flag_(SID)=1, the encoderperforms 10^(th)-order linear prediction analysis on the high-bandsignal s₁ of the current frame, and obtains 10 linear predictioncoefficients lpc(i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 9. lpc(i) is weighted:

lpc_(w)(i)=w ₂(i)·lpc(i)i=0,1, . . . 9  (8)

and a weighted LPC lpc_(w)(i) is obtained, where w₂(i) represents agroup of 9-dimensional weighting factors that are smaller than or equalto 1. lpc_(w)(i) is transformed to an LSP coefficient to obtain 10 LSPcoefficients lsp_(w) (i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 9, and a long-termmoving average of lsp_(w) (i) of the encoding end is updated accordingto lsp_(w) (i).

lsp_(a)(i)=α·lsp_(a) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·lsp_(w)(i)i=0,1, . . . 9  (9)

where preferably, α=0.9, and lsp_(a) (i) is initialized as lsp_(w) (i)of the current frame every time when flag_(hb) changes from 0 to 1. Whenthe SID needs to include high-band parameters, lsp_(a) (i) is quantized,and a group of quantized indexes idx_(LSP) is obtained. A long-termmoving average e_(1a) of logarithmic energies of the high-band signalsat the encoding end is quantized, and a quantized index idx_(E) isobtained. In this case, the SID is formed of the idx_(ISF), idx_(e),idx_(LSP), and idx_(E). In this embodiment, the SID formed of theidx_(ISF), idx_(e), idx_(LSP), and idx_(E) is referred to as a largeSID.

Optionally, lsp_(a) (i) may also be updated continuously in the DTXworking state. That is, no matter whether the value of flag_(hb) is 1 or0, lsp_(a) (i) is updated. Specifically, the method for updating lsp_(a)(i) when flag_(hb)=0 is the same as the foregoing method whenflag_(hb)=1, and details are not repeatedly described in thisembodiment.

In this embodiment, a principle of the policy for encoding a noisehigh-band signal is similar to that of the policy for encoding a noiselow-band signal. Only a brief introduction is provided in thisembodiment. The specific implementation process is not described indetail in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, when the condition for encoding and transmitting anoise high-band signal is satisfied, the encoding and transmission ofthe noise high-band signal are always performed simultaneously with theencoding and transmission of a noise low-band signal. However,optionally, the encoding and transmission of the noise high-band signalmay also not be performed simultaneously with the encoding andtransmission of the noise low-band signal. That is, when the SID issent, three possible cases may exist, (1) only the low-band signal ofthe current noise frame is encoded and transmitted, (2) only thehigh-band signal of the current noise frame is encoded and transmitted,and (3) the low-band signal and the high-band signal of the currentnoise frame are encoded and transmitted simultaneously, and in thiscase, the sending condition in the policy for sending the second SID ofthe second discontinuous transmission mechanism further includes thefirst discontinuous transmission mechanism satisfying the first SIDsending condition. The three cases of sending the SID are notspecifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, steps 302 to 304 are specifically steps of encodingand transmitting the noise low-band signal using the first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal using the second discontinuous transmission mechanism,where a policy for sending a first SID of the first discontinuoustransmission mechanism is different from a policy for sending a secondSID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism, or where apolicy for encoding a first SID of the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism is different from a policy for encoding a second SID of thesecond discontinuous transmission mechanism.

The method embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects, a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal, then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. In thisway, different processing manners are used for the high-band signal andthe low-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encodedbits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality ofa codec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objective ofreducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality,thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

Embodiment 4

This embodiment provides a method for processing audio data. Incomparison with processing of a noise signal at an encoder end, adecoder end may determine, according to a received bit stream, whether acurrent frame is an encoded speech frame or an SID or a NO_DATA frame.The NO_DATA frame is a frame indicating that the encoding end does notencode and send an SID in a noise period. When the current frame is anSID, the decoder may further determine, according to the number of bitsof the SID, whether the SID includes a low-band and/or high-bandparameter. Optionally, the decoder may also determine, according to aspecific identifier inserted in the SID, whether the SID includes alow-band and/or high-band parameter. This requires that an additionalidentifier bit should be added when the SID is encoded. For example,when a first identifier is inserted in the SID, it identifies that theSID includes only a high-band parameter, when a second identifier isinserted, it identifies that the SID includes only a low-band parameter,and when a third identifier is inserted, it identifies that the SIDincludes a high-band parameter and a low-band parameter. If the currentframe is an encoded speech frame, the decoder decodes the speech frame.When the current frame is an SID or a NO_DATA frame, the decoderselects, according to a specific working state of CNG, a correspondingmethod to reconstruct a CN frame. In this embodiment, the CNG has twoworking states, a half-decoding CNG state corresponding to a small SIDframe, namely, a first CNG state, and a full-decoding CNG statecorresponding to a large SID frame, namely, a second CNG state. In thefull-decoding CNG state, the decoder reconstructs a CN frame accordingto a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter obtainedby decoding a large SID frame. In the half-decoding CNG state, thedecoder reconstructs a CN frame according to a noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding a small SID frame and a locally estimated noisehigh-band parameter. When the current frame at the decoding end is alarge SID frame, if a CNG working state flag flag_(CNG) is 0 (indicatingthe half-decoding CNG state), the CNG working state flag flag_(CNG) isset to 1 (indicating the full-decoding CNG state), otherwise, theoriginal state remains unchanged. Similarly, when the current frame atthe decoding end is a small SID frame, if the CNG working state flagflag_(CNG) is 1, the CNG working state flag flag_(CNG) is set to 0,otherwise, the original state remains unchanged. Referring to FIG. 4,specifically this embodiment provides a method for processing audio dataat a decoder end, where the method includes the following steps.

401. A decoder obtains an SID, and if the SID includes a high-bandparameter and a low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtains a thirdCN frame according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding.

In this embodiment, after receiving an encoded speech frame sent by anencoder end, the decoder end first determines the type of the speechframe, so that different decoding manners are correspondingly usedaccording to different types of speech frames. Specifically, if thenumber of bits of the SID is smaller than a preset first threshold, itis determined that the SID includes the high-band parameter, if thenumber of bits of the SID is greater than a preset first threshold andsmaller than a preset second threshold, it is determined that the SIDincludes the low-band parameter, and if the number of bits of the SID isgreater than a preset second threshold and smaller than a preset thirdthreshold, it is determined that the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter. Alternatively, if the SID includesa first identifier, it is determined that the SID includes the high-bandparameter, if the SID includes a second identifier, it is determinedthat the SID includes the low-band parameter, or if the SID includes athird identifier, it is determined that the SID includes the low-bandparameter and the high-band parameter.

In this embodiment, if the SID includes the high-band parameter and thelow-band parameter, the SID is decoded to obtain the noise high-bandparameter and the noise low-band parameter, and the third CN frame isobtained according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding. Specifically, the decoderdecodes the SID to obtain a decoded low-band excitation logarithmicenergy e_(D), a low-band ISF coefficient isf_(d)(i), a high-bandlogarithmic energy E_(D), and a high-band LSP coefficient lsp_(d)(i).isf_(d)(i) is transformed an ISP coefficient isp_(d)(i), and e_(D) andE_(D) are transformed to energies e_(d) and E_(d), whereE_(d)=10^(0.1·E) ^(D) and e_(d)=2^(e) ^(D) , and then isp_(d)(i), e_(d),lsp_(d)(i), and E_(d) are buffered.

In this embodiment, when the decoder is in the CNG working state andflag_(CNG)=1, no matter whether the current frame is an SID or a NO_DATAframe, the buffered isp_(d)(i), e_(d), lsp_(d)(i), and E_(d) are used toupdate a long-term moving average of each of the buffered isp_(d)(i),e_(d), lsp_(d)(i), and E_(d) at the decoding end:

isp_(CN)(i)=α·isp_(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·isp_(d)(i)i=0,1, . . . 15

lsp_(CN)(i)=β·lsp_(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−β)·lsp_(d)(i)i=0,1, . . . 9

e _(CN) =β·e _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾+(1−β)·e _(d)

E _(CN) =β·E _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾+(1−β)·E _(d)  (10)

where α=0.9, and β=0.7. E_(CN) is buffered to a high-band energy bufferE_(1old). A random small energy is added on the basis of e_(CN), and afinal excitation energy e′_(CN) used to reconstruct a low-band noisesignal is obtained: e′_(CN)=(1+0.000011·RND·e_(CN))·e_(CN), where RNDrepresents a random number within a range of [−32767, 32767]. In thisembodiment, a 320-point white noise sequence exc₀(i) is generated, wherei=0, 1, . . . 319. e′_(CN) is used to perform gain adjustment on exc₀(i)to obtain exc′₀(i), that is, exc₀(i) is multiplied by a gain coefficientG₀, so that the energy of exc′₀(i) is equal to e′_(CN), where

$\begin{matrix}{{G_{0} = \sqrt[2]{\frac{e_{CN}^{\prime}}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}{ex{c_{0}(i)}}}}}.} & \;\end{matrix}$

isp_(CN)(i) is transformed to an LPC to obtain a synthesis filter1/A₀(Z), the gain-adjusted excitation exc′₀(i) is used to excite thefilter 1/A(Z) to obtain a low-band CN signal s′₀ that is reconstructedat the decoding end and sampled at 16 kHz, and an energy of s′₀ iscalculated and buffered to a low-band energy buffer E_(0old).

In this embodiment, the processing of a noise high-band signal at thedecoding end is similar to the processing of a noise low-band signal.Another 320-point white noise sequence exc₁(i) is generated, where i=0,1, . . . 319, lsp_(CN)(i) is transformed to an LPC to obtain a synthesisfilter 1/A₁(Z), and exc₁(i) is used to excite the filter 1/A₁(Z) toobtain a gain-unadjusted high-band CN signal s^(˜) ₁(i). s^(˜) ₁(i) ismultiplied by gain coefficients G₁ and G₂, where G₂=0.8, and a high-bandCN signal s′₁ that is reconstructed at the decoding end and sampled at16 kHz is obtained, where,

$\begin{matrix}{{G_{1} = \sqrt[2]{\frac{E_{CN}}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}{s_{1}^{\sim}(i)}}}}.} & \;\end{matrix}$

In this embodiment, the purpose of G₂ is to perform energy suppressionon the reconstructed noise signal to some extent.

In this embodiment, at the decoder end, s′₀ and s′₁ are passed through aQMF synthesis filter, and finally a first CN frame that is reconstructedby the decoder and sampled at 32 kHz is obtained.

402. If the SID includes the low-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noise high-bandparameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter.

In this embodiment, when the decoder is in the CNG working state andflag_(CNG)=0, no matter whether the current frame is an SID or a NO_DATAframe, a low-band CN signal s′₀ that is reconstructed at the decodingend and sampled at 16 kHz is obtained according to the same method thatis used when flag_(CNG)=1, namely, the method in step 402, which is notfurther described in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, a high-band signal of the first CN frame is obtainedstill using the method of exciting a synthesis filter using white noise,except that an energy of the high-band signal of the first CN frame anda synthesis filter coefficient are obtained by performing estimationlocally. In this embodiment, the locally generating a noise high-bandparameter includes separately obtaining a weighted average energy of anoise high-band signal and a synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID, and obtaining thenoise high-band signal according to the obtained weighted average energyof the noise high-band signal and the obtained synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID.

In this embodiment, preferably, the obtaining a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDincludes obtaining an energy of a low-band signal of the first CN frameaccording to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding,calculating a ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to anenergy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when an SID including ahigh-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain a first ratio,obtaining, according to the energy of the low-band signal of the firstCN frame and the first ratio, an energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID, and performing weighted averagingon the energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID and an energy of a high-band signal of a locally buffered CNframe, to obtain the weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where the weightedaverage energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CN frame.Optionally, the calculating a ratio of an energy of a noise high-bandsignal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when an SIDincluding a high-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain afirst ratio, includes calculating a ratio of an instant energy of thenoise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signalat the moment when the SID including the high-band parameter is receivedbefore the SID, to obtain the first ratio, or calculating a ratio of aweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal to a weightedaverage energy of the noise low-band signal at the moment when the SIDincluding the high-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtainthe first ratio. The instant energy is the energy obtained by decoding.When the energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is greater than an energy of a high-band signalof a previous CN frame that is locally buffered, the energy of thehigh-band signal of the previous CN frame that is locally buffered isupdated at a first rate, otherwise, the energy of the high-band signalof the previous CN frame that is locally buffered is updated at a secondrate, where the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the obtaining a weighted averageenergy of a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDmay be implemented using the following method, obtaining an energy E₀ ofthe low-band signal of the first CN frame s′₀ according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding, estimating, according to theenergy E_(1old) of the high-band signal and E_(0old) of the low-bandsignal of the previous CN frame in the full-decoding CNG state and E₀,an energy E^(˜) ₁ of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID, where

${E_{1}^{\sim} = {\left( \frac{E_{1old}}{E_{0old}} \right) \cdot E_{0}}},$

and updating a long-term moving average E_(CN) of high-band CN signalenergies at the decoding end using E^(˜) ₁: E_(CN)=λ·E_(CN)⁽⁻¹⁾+(1−λ)·E₁ ^(˜), where a coefficient λ is a variable, when E^(˜)₁>E_(CN), λ=0.98, otherwise, λ=0.9, where λ=0.98 is a first rate, andwhere λ=0.9 is a second rate.

In this embodiment, if a deviation is not calculated at the encodingend, optionally, the obtaining a weighted average energy of a noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID includes selectinga high-band signal of a speech frame with a minimum high-band signalenergy from speech frames within a preset period of time before the SID,and obtaining, according to an energy of the high-band signal of thespeech frame with the minimum high-band signal energy among the speechframes, the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at themoment corresponding to the SID, or selecting high-band signals of Nspeech frames with a high-band signal energy smaller than a presetthreshold from speech frames within a preset period of time before theSID, and obtaining, according to a weighted average energy of thehigh-band signals of the N speech frames, the weighted average energy ofthe noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, wherethe weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CNframe.

In this embodiment, preferably, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes distributing M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients orLSF coefficients or LSP coefficients in a frequency range correspondingto a high-band signal, performing randomization processing on the Mcoefficients, where a feature of the randomization is causing eachcoefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, the targetvalue of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes after every Nframes, and N may be a variable, and obtaining, according to the filtercoefficients obtained by randomization processing, the synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID may be implemented using the following method.

Nine ISF coefficients isf_(ext)(i) are evenly distributed in a frequencyband of −16 kHz corresponding to low-band ISF coefficients isf_(d)(14),where i=0, 1, . . . 8:

isf_(ext)(i)=isf_(d)(14)+0.1·(i+1)·(16000−isf_(d)(14))i=0,1, . . .8  (11)

isf_(ext)(i) is transformed to a frequency band of 0-8 kHz, andisf′_(ext)(i) is obtained:

isf_(ext)′(i)=isf_(ext)(i)−8000=0,1, . . . 8  (12)

isf′_(ext)(i) is randomized using a group of 9-dimensional randomizationfactors R(i), where i=0, 1, . . . 8, and a randomized ISF coefficientisf₁(i) is obtained:

isf₁(i)=R(i)·(isf_(ext)′(1)−isf_(ext)′(0))+isf_(ext)′(i)i=0,1, . . .8  (13)

where R(i) is obtained according to the following formula (14):

R(i)=α·R ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·R _(t)(i)i=0,1, . . . 8  (14)

where α=0.8, and R_(t)(i) is referred to as a target randomizationfactor, and obtained according to the following formula:

$\begin{matrix}{{R_{t}(i)} = \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}{1 + \ {0.1 \cdot {{RND}\ (i)}}} & {{{mod}\left( {{cnt},10} \right)} = 0} \\{R_{t}^{({- 1})}\ (i)} & {{{mod}\left( {{cnt},10} \right)} \neq 0}\end{matrix}\mspace{14mu} i} = 0},1,{.\;.\;.\; 8.}} \right.} & (15)\end{matrix}$

In the foregoing formula (15), RND represents a group of 9-dimensionalrandom number sequences, and random numbers in each dimension aredifferent from each other and all fall within a range of [−1, 1]. cnt isa frame counter. In the CNG working state, when flag_(CNG)=0, for eachSID frame or NO_DATA frame, 1 is added to the counter. mod(cnt, 10)represents cnt mod 10. In another embodiment, when R_(t)(i) iscalculated, 10 in mod(cnt, 10) may also be a variable, for example,

$\begin{matrix}{{R_{t}(i)} = \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}{1 + \ {0.1 \cdot {{RND}\ (i)}}} & {{{mod}\left( {{cnt},N} \right)} = 0} \\{R_{t}^{({- 1})}\ (i)} & {{{mod}\left( {{cnt},N} \right)} \neq 0}\end{matrix}\mspace{14mu} i} = 0},1,{{{.\;.\;.\; 8}N} = \left\{ \begin{matrix}{{{10} + {5\  \cdot {RND}}}\ } & {{{mod}\left( {{cnt},N^{({- 1})}} \right)} = 0} \\N^{({- 1})} & {{{mod}\left( {{cnt},N^{({- 1})}} \right)} \neq 0}\end{matrix} \right.}} \right.} & (16)\end{matrix}$

where RND represents a random number within a range of [−1, 1], which isnot specifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, a low-band ISF coefficient isf_(d)(15) is used asisf₁(9), and synthesized with a randomized ISF coefficient isf₁(i),where i=0, 1, . . . 8, to form a 10^(th)-order filter ISF coefficient,which is then transformed to an LPC lpc₁(i), where i=0, 1, . . . 9.lpc₁(i) is multiplied by a group of 10-dimensional weighting factorsW(i)={0.6699, 0.5862, 0.5129, 0.4488, 0.3927, 0.3436, 0.3007, 0.2631,0.2302, 0.2014}, and a weighted LPC lpc^(˜) ₁(i) is obtained, that is, asynthesis filter 1/A^(˜) ₁(Z) is estimated.

In this embodiment, a 320-point white noise sequence exc₂(i) isgenerated, where i=0, 1, . . . 319, and exc₂(i) is used to excite thefilter 1/A^(˜) ₁(Z) to obtain a gain-unadjusted high-band CN signals^(˜) ₁(i). s^(˜) ₁(i) is multiplied by gain coefficients G₃ and G₄,where G₄=0.6, and a high-band CN signal s′₁ that is reconstructed at thedecoding end and sampled at 16 kHz is obtained, where

$\begin{matrix}{G_{3} = {\sqrt[2]{\frac{E_{CN}}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}\;{s_{1}^{\sim}(i)}}}.}} & \;\end{matrix}$

If the current frame is an SID, it is necessary to transform lpc^(˜)₁(i) to an LSP coefficient lsp⁻ ₁(i), and use lsp⁻ ₁(i) to update along-term moving average of LSP coefficients of high-band signals of CNframes buffered at the decoding end:

lsp_(CN)(i)=β·lsp_(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−β)−lsp₁ ^(˜)(i)i=0,1, . . . 9  (17)

where β=0.7.

In this embodiment, optionally, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes obtaining M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients or LSFcoefficients or LSP coefficients of a locally buffered noise high-bandsignal, performing randomization processing on the M coefficients, wherea feature of the randomization is, causing each coefficient among the Mcoefficients to gradually approach a target value corresponding to eachcoefficient, where the target value is a value in a preset rangeadjacent to a coefficient value, and the target value of eachcoefficient among the M coefficients changes after every N frames, andobtaining, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID. Specifically,no limitation is set in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, after the low-band parameter and high-band parameterare obtained, s′₀ and s′₁ are passed through a QMF synthesis filter, andfinally a first CN frame that is reconstructed by the decoder andsampled at 32 kHz is obtained.

Further, in this embodiment, optionally, before the first CN frame isobtained according to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decodingand the locally generated noise high-band parameter, the locallygenerated noise high-band parameter may be further optimized, so thatcomfort noise of a better effect can be obtained. A specificoptimization step includes, when history frames adjacent to the SID areencoded speech frames, if an average energy of high-band signals or apart of high-band signals that are decoded from the encoded speechframes is smaller than an average energy of noise high-band signals or apart of the noise high-band signals that are generated locally,multiplying noise high-band signals of subsequent L frames starting fromthe SID by a smoothing factor smaller than 1, to obtain a new weightedaverage energy of the locally generated noise high-band signals, andcorrespondingly, the obtaining a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter includes obtaining a fourth CN frame according tothe noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding, the synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID, and the new weighted average energy of the locally generatednoise high-band signals.

In this embodiment, when a frame before the current SID is an encodedspeech frame, and an energy E_(sp) of a high-band signal of the encodedspeech frame is lower than an energy E_(s′1) of s′₁, it is necessary tosmooth energies of high-band signals of the current SID and subsequentseveral SIDs (50 frames in this embodiment). A specific smoothing methodis multiplying s′₁ of the current frame by a gain G_(s), to obtainsmoothed s′_(1s).

${G_{s} = \sqrt[2]{1 - {0.02 \cdot \left( {50 - {cnt}} \right) \cdot \left( {1 - {E_{s\; 1}^{- 1}/E_{s^{\prime}1}}} \right)}}},$

where, cnt is a frame counter, 1 is added to the counter for each framestarting from the first CN frame after the encoded speech frame, andE_(s1) ⁻¹ is an energy of a smoothed high-band signal of a previousframe and is initialized as E_(sp) when cnt=1. The smoothing process isperformed on only up to 50 frames. In this period, if E_(s1) ⁻¹ isgreater than E_(s′1), the smoothing process is terminated. Optionally,E_(s1) ⁻¹ and E_(s′1) may also represent energies of only a part offrames, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment. In thisembodiment, s′₀ and s′₁ (or s′_(1s)) are passed through a QMF synthesisfilter, and finally a CN frame that is reconstructed by the decoder andsampled at 32 kHz is obtained.

403. If the SID includes the high-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate a noise low-bandparameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to the noise high-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise low-bandparameter.

In this embodiment, if the SID includes the high-band parameter, the SIDis decoded to obtain the high-band parameter, and a noise low-bandparameter is generated locally, and a second CN frame is obtainedaccording to the high-band parameter obtained by decoding and thelocally generated noise low-band parameter. The method for decoding thehigh-band parameter is the same as the method in step 401, and detailsare not repeatedly described in this embodiment. The method for locallygenerating the low-band parameter is the same as the method for locallygenerating a wideband parameter, and details are not repeatedlydescribed in this embodiment.

The method embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects, a decoder obtains an SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-bandparameter, if the SID includes the low-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generates a noisehigh-band parameter, and obtains a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter, if the SID includes the high-band parameter,decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generatesa noise low-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according tothe noise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locallygenerated noise low-band parameter, and if the SID includes thehigh-band parameter and the low-band parameter, decodes the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, andobtains a third CN frame according to the noise high-band parameter andthe noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding. In this way,different processing manners are used for the high-band signal and thelow-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bitsmay be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of acodec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objective of reducinga transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, therebysolving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem. In addition,before the second CN frame is obtained according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter, the locally generated noise high-band parameter may befurther optimized, so that comfort noise of a better effect can beobtained. Therefore, performance of the decoder is further optimized.

Embodiment 5

This embodiment provides a method for processing audio data. Same as inthe method for processing audio data in Embodiment 2, an encoder endobtains a noise frame of an audio signal, and decomposes the noise frameinto a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal. However,optionally, determining whether the high-band signal of the noise framesatisfies a preset encoding and transmission condition includesdetermining whether a spectral structure of the noise high-band signalof the noise frame, in comparison with an average spectral structure ofnoise high-band signals before the noise frame, satisfies a presetcondition, if yes, encoding an SID of the noise high-band signal of thenoise frame using the policy for sending the second SID, and sending theSID, and if not, determining that the noise high-band signal of thenoise frame does not need to be encoded and transmitted. The averagespectral structure of the noise high-band signals before the noise frameincludes a weighted average of spectrums of the noise high-band signalsbefore the noise frame. In this embodiment, the determining whether aspectral structure of the noise high-band signal of the noise frame, incomparison with an average spectral structure of noise high-band signalsbefore the noise frame, satisfies a preset condition, is used as a thirdcondition for determining whether to encode and transmit the noisehigh-band signal.

In this embodiment, optionally, whether to encode and transmit the noisehigh-band signal may also be determined using a second determiningcondition, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, DTX decides whether to encode and transmit ahigh-band parameter, that is, setting of flag_(hb) may be decided usingthe following conditions, (1) whether a third determining condition issatisfied, if yes, setting flag_(hb) to 0, otherwise, setting flag_(hb)to 1, and (2) whether the second determining condition is satisfied, ifnot, setting flag_(hb) to 0, and if yes, setting flag_(hb) to 1.

In this embodiment, a specific method for implementing the thirddetermining condition may be as follows the encoder obtains a10^(th)-order LSP coefficient lsp(i) of the noise high-band signal s₁ ofthe current noise frame, where i=0, . . . 9, and optionally, thecoefficient may also be an LSF or ISF or ISP coefficient, which is notspecifically limited in this embodiment. The LSP or LSF or ISF or ISPcoefficient is only a different representation manner in a differentdomain, but all represent a synthesis filter coefficient, which is notspecifically limited in this embodiment. lsp(i) is used to update amoving average thereof.

lsp_(a)(i)=α·lsp_(a)(i)+(1−α)·lsp(i)i=0, . . . 9  (18)

where lsp_(a)(i) is a long-term moving average of lsp(i). A spectraldistortion between current lsp_(a)(i) and lsp_(a)(i) at a moment when anSID frame including a high-band parameter is sent last time iscalculated:

$\begin{matrix}{{D_{lsp} = {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{9}\left( {{ls{p_{a}(i)}} - {lsp_{a}^{-}}} \right)^{2}}},} & \;\end{matrix}$

where D_(lsp) represents the spectral distortion, and lsp_(a) ⁻represents lsp_(a)(i) at the moment when the SID frame including thehigh-band parameter is sent last time. If D_(lsp) is smaller than acertain threshold, flag_(hb)=0 is set, otherwise, flag_(hb)=1 is set.

In this embodiment, a working method for encoding the low-band parameterand/or the high-band parameter by the encoder when necessary isbasically the same as the working method in Embodiment 3, and detailsare not repeatedly described in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, when a decoder is in a CNG working state andflag_(CNG)=0, it is necessary to locally generate a noise high-bandsignal. The method for obtaining a weighted average energy of a noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to an SID is the same as themethod in Embodiment 4, and details are not repeatedly described in thisembodiment. However, in this embodiment, preferably, obtaining asynthesis filter coefficient of the noise high-band signal at a momentcorresponding to the SID includes obtaining M ISF coefficients or ISPcoefficients or LSF coefficients or LSP coefficients of a locallybuffered noise high-band signal, performing randomization processing onthe M coefficients, where a feature of the randomization is causing eachcoefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, and the targetvalue of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes after every Nframes, and obtaining, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID. Specifically,the obtaining a synthesis filter coefficient of the noise high-bandsignal at a moment corresponding to the SID may be implemented in thefollowing manner.

Assuming lsp′(i)=lsp_(CN)(i), where i=0, . . . 9, lsp_(CN)(i) is along-term moving average of LSP coefficients of high-band signals of CNframes that are locally buffered at the decoding end. Randomizationprocessing is performed on lsp′(i) using the same method in Embodiment4, and lsp₁(i) is obtained:

$\begin{matrix}\left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}{ls{p_{1}\left( {\left. 0 \right) = {{{R(0)} \cdot \left( {1 - {ls{p_{1}(0)}}} \right)} + {{lsp}^{\prime}(0)}}} \right.}} \\{ls{p_{1}\left( {\left. i \right) = {{{R(i)} \cdot \left( {{{lsp}^{\prime}(i)} - {{lsp}^{\prime}\left( {i - 1} \right)}} \right)} + {{lsp}^{\prime}(i)}}} \right.}}\end{matrix}\mspace{14mu} i} = 1},{.\;.\;.\; 9.}} \right. & (19)\end{matrix}$

lsp₁(i) is transformed to an LPC lpc₁(i), and a synthesis filter 1/A^(˜)₁(Z) is obtained after weighting with w(i) using the same method inEmbodiment 4. In this embodiment, a 320-point white noise sequenceexc₂(i) is generated, where i=0, 1, . . . 319, and exc₂(i) is used toexcite the filter 1/A^(˜) ₁(Z) to obtain a gain-unadjusted high-band CNsignal s^(˜) ₁(i). s^(˜) ₁ (i) is multiplied by a gain coefficient G3,and a high-band signal s′₁ of a CN frame that is reconstructed at thedecoding end and sampled at 16 kHz is obtained. In this embodiment, whenthe current frame is an SID, lsp₁(i) obtained using this method is notused to update the long-term moving average of the LSP coefficients ofthe high-band signals of the CN frames that are buffered at the decodingend.

In this embodiment, when the encoder encodes a large SID frame, when along-term moving average e_(1a) of logarithmic energies of high-bandsignals is quantized at the encoding end, the quantization is performedafter e_(1a) is attenuated (that is, after a value is subtracted).Therefore, in this case, in decoding, it is unnecessary to multiplys^(˜) ₁(i) by G2 or G4 in Embodiment 4. Other steps of the decoding endin this embodiment are similar to the steps in the foregoing embodiment,and details are not repeatedly described in this embodiment.

The method embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects, a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal, then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. Adecoder obtains an SID, and determines whether the SID includes alow-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter, if the SID includes thelow-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise low-bandparameter, locally generates a noise high-band parameter, and obtains afirst CN frame according to the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameter, if the SIDincludes the high-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter, locally generates a noise low-band parameter, andobtains a second CN frame according to the noise high-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise low-band parameter,and if the SID includes the high-band parameter and the low-bandparameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter and anoise low-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding. In this way, different processing manners are used for thehigh-band signal and the low-band signal, calculation complexity may bereduced and encoded bits may be saved under a premise of not loweringsubjective quality of a codec, and bits that are saved help to achievean objective of reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overallencoding quality, thereby solving a super-wideband encoding andtransmission problem.

Embodiment 6

Referring to FIG. 5, this embodiment provides an apparatus for encodingaudio data, where the apparatus includes an obtaining module 501 and atransmitting module 502.

The obtaining module 501 is configured to obtain a noise frame of anaudio signal, and decompose the noise frame into a noise low-band signaland a noise high-band signal.

The transmitting module 502 is configured to: encode and transmit thenoise low-band signal using a first discontinuous transmissionmechanism; and encode and transmit the noise high-band signal using asecond discontinuous transmission mechanism, where a policy for sendinga first SID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanism isdifferent from a policy for sending a second SID of the seconddiscontinuous transmission mechanism, or where a policy for encoding afirst SID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanism is differentfrom a policy for encoding a second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, the first SID includes a low-band parameter of thenoise frame, and the second SID includes a low-band parameter and/or ahigh-band parameter of the noise frame.

Optionally, referring to FIG. 6, the transmitting module 502 includes afirst transmitting unit 502 a configured to: determine whether the noisehigh-band signal has a preset spectral structure; if yes, and a sendingcondition of the policy for sending the second SID is satisfied, encodean SID of the noise high-band signal using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and send the SID; and if not, determine that the noisehigh-band signal does not need to be encoded and transmitted.

In this embodiment, the first transmitting unit 502 a includes a firstdetermining subunit configured to obtain a spectrum of the noisehigh-band signal, divide the spectrum into at least two sub-bands, andif an average energy of any first sub-band in the sub-bands is notsmaller than an average energy of a second sub-band in the sub-bands,where a frequency band in which the second sub-band is located is higherthan a frequency band in which the first sub-band is located, determinethat the noise high-band signal has no preset spectral structure,otherwise, determine that the noise high-band signal has a presetspectral structure.

Referring to FIG. 6, optionally, the transmitting module 502 includes asecond transmitting unit 502 b configured to generate a deviationaccording to a first ratio and a second ratio, where the first ratio isa ratio of an energy of the noise high-band signal to an energy of thenoise low-band signal of the noise frame, and the second ratio is aratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when an SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame, and determinewhether the deviation reaches a preset threshold, if yes, encode an SIDof the noise high-band signal using the policy for encoding the secondSID, and send the SID, and if not, determine that the noise high-bandsignal does not need to be encoded and transmitted.

Optionally, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that the first ratio is a ratio of an instant energy ofthe noise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-bandsignal of the noise frame, and correspondingly, that the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when an SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame includes that thesecond ratio is a ratio of an instant energy of the noise high-bandsignal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signal at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame.

Alternatively, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that the first ratio is a ratio of a weighted averageenergy of noise high-band signals of the noise frame and a noise frameprior to the noise frame to a weighted average energy of noise low-bandsignals of the noise frame and the noise frame prior to the noise frame,and correspondingly, that the second ratio is a ratio of an energy of anoise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when an SID including a noise high-band parameter is sent lasttime before the noise frame includes that the second ratio is a ratio ofa weighted average energy of high-band signals to a weighted averageenergy of low-band signals of a noise frame and a noise frame prior tothe noise frame at the moment when the SID including the noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the second transmitting unit 502 bincludes a calculating subunit configured to separately calculate alogarithmic value of the first ratio and a logarithmic value of thesecond ratio, and calculate an absolute value of a difference betweenthe logarithmic value of the first ratio and the logarithmic value ofthe second ratio, to obtain the deviation.

Referring to FIG. 6, optionally, in this embodiment, the transmittingmodule 502 includes a third transmitting unit 502 c configured todetermine whether a spectral structure of the noise high-band signal ofthe noise frame, in comparison with an average spectral structure ofnoise high-band signals before the noise frame, satisfies a presetcondition, if yes, encode an SID of the noise high-band signal of thenoise frame using the policy for sending the second SID, and send theSID, and if not, determine that the noise high-band signal of the noiseframe does not need to be encoded and transmitted.

In this embodiment, optionally, the average spectral structure of thenoise high-band signals before the noise frame includes a weightedaverage of spectrums of the noise high-band signals before the noiseframe.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the sending condition in the policy forsending the second SID of the second discontinuous transmissionmechanism further includes the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism satisfying a condition for sending the first SID.

The apparatus embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects, a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal, then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. In thisway, different processing manners are used for the high-band signal andthe low-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encodedbits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality ofa codec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objective ofreducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality,thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

Embodiment 7

Referring to FIG. 7, this embodiment provides an apparatus for decodingaudio data, where the apparatus includes an obtaining module 601, afirst decoding module 602, a second decoding module 603, and a thirddecoding module 604.

The obtaining module 601 is configured to determine whether a receivedcurrent SID includes a low-band parameter or a high-band parameter.

The first decoding module 602 is configured to, if the SID obtained bythe obtaining module 601 includes the low-band parameter, decode the SIDto obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noise high-bandparameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter.

The second decoding module 603 is configured to, if the SID obtained bythe obtaining module 601 includes the high-band parameter, decode theSID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate a noiselow-band parameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noiselow-band parameter.

The third decoding module 604 is configured to, if the SID obtained bythe obtaining module 601 includes the high-band parameter and thelow-band parameter, decode the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameterand a noise low-band parameter, and obtain a third CN frame according tothe noise high-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtainedby decoding.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the first decoding module 602 is furtherconfigured to, before decoding the SID to obtain a noise low-bandparameter, locally generating a noise high-band parameter, and obtaininga first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameter, if thedecoder is in a first comfort noise generation CNG state, enter a secondCNG state.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the third decoding module 604 is furtherconfigured to, before decoding the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtaining a third CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter and the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding, if the decoder is in a second CNG state,enter a first CNG state.

Optionally, the obtaining module 601 includes a first determining unitconfigured to, if the number of bits of the SID is smaller than a presetfirst threshold, determine that the SID includes the high-bandparameter, if the number of bits of the SID is greater than a presetfirst threshold and smaller than a preset second threshold, determinethat the SID includes the low-band parameter, and if the number of bitsof the SID is greater than a preset second threshold and smaller than apreset third threshold, determine that the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter, or a second determining unitconfigured to, if the SID includes a first identifier, determine thatthe SID includes the high-band parameter, if the SID includes a secondidentifier, determine that the SID includes the low-band parameter, andif the SID includes a third identifier, determine that the SID includesthe low-band parameter and the high-band parameter.

In this embodiment, the first decoding module 602 includes a firstobtaining unit configured to separately obtain a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal and a synthesis filter coefficient of thenoise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID, and asecond obtaining unit configured to obtain the noise high-band signalaccording to the obtained weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal and the obtained synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes a first obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain an energy of a low-band signal of the first CNframe according to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding, acalculating subunit configured to calculate a ratio of an energy of anoise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when an SID including a high-band parameter is received beforethe SID, to obtain a first ratio, a second obtaining subunit configuredto obtain, according to the energy of the low-band signal of the firstCN frame and the first ratio, an energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID, and a third obtaining subunitconfigured to perform weighted averaging on the energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID and an energy ofa high-band signal of a locally buffered CN frame, to obtain theweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID, where the weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID is a high-bandsignal energy of the first CN frame.

The calculating subunit is specifically configured to calculate a ratioof an instant energy of the noise high-band signal to an instant energyof the noise low-band signal at the moment when the SID including thehigh-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain the firstratio, or calculate a ratio of a weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal to a weighted average energy of the noise low-bandsignal at the moment when the SID including the high-band parameter isreceived before the SID, to obtain the first ratio.

When the energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is greater than an energy of a high-band signalof a previous CN frame that is locally buffered, the energy of thehigh-band signal of the previous CN frame that is locally buffered isupdated at a first rate, otherwise, the energy of the high-band signalof the previous CN frame that is locally buffered is updated at a secondrate, where the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes a first selecting subunitconfigured to select a high-band signal of a speech frame with a minimumhigh-band signal energy from speech frames within a preset period oftime before the SID, and obtain, according to an energy of the high-bandsignal of the speech frame with the minimum high-band signal energyamong the speech frames, the weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where theweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CNframe, or a second selecting subunit configured to select high-bandsignals of N speech frames with a high-band signal energy smaller than apreset threshold from speech frames within a preset period of timebefore the SID, and obtain, according to a weighted average energy ofthe high-band signals of the N speech frames, the weighted averageenergy of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to theSID, where the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of thefirst CN frame.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes a distributing subunitconfigured to distribute M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients or LSFcoefficients or LSP coefficients in a frequency range corresponding to ahigh-band signal, a first randomization processing subunit configured toperform randomization processing on the M coefficients, where a featureof the randomization is, causing each coefficient among the Mcoefficients to gradually approach a target value corresponding to eachcoefficient, where the target value is a value in a preset rangeadjacent to a coefficient value, and the target value of eachcoefficient among the M coefficients changes after every N frames, whereboth the M and the N are natural numbers, and a fourth obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes a fifth obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients or LSFcoefficients or LSP coefficients of a locally buffered noise high-bandsignal, a second randomization processing subunit configured to performrandomization processing on the M coefficients, where a feature of therandomization is causing each coefficient among the M coefficients togradually approach a target value corresponding to each coefficient,where the target value is a value in a preset range adjacent to acoefficient value, and the target value of each coefficient among the Mcoefficients changes after every N frames, and a sixth obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Referring to FIG. 8, optionally, the apparatus further includes anoptimizing module 605 configured to, before the first decoding module602 obtains the first CN frame, when history frames adjacent to the SIDare encoded speech frames, if an average energy of high-band signals ora part of high-band signals that are decoded from the encoded speechframes is smaller than an average energy of noise high-band signals or apart of the noise high-band signals that are generated locally, multiplynoise high-band signals of subsequent L frames starting from the SID bya smoothing factor smaller than 1, to obtain a new weighted averageenergy of the locally generated noise high-band signals.

Correspondingly, the first decoding module 602 is specificallyconfigured to obtain a fourth CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding, the synthesis filter coefficient of thenoise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, and thenew weighted average energy of the locally generated noise high-bandsignals.

The apparatus embodiment provided by the present disclosure brings thefollowing beneficial effects, a decoder obtains an SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter or a high-band parameter,if the SID includes the low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain anoise low-band parameter, locally generates a noise high-band parameter,and obtains a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter, if the SID includes the high-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generates a noiselow-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noiselow-band parameter, and if the SID includes the high-band parameter andthe low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter and the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding. In this way, different processingmanners are used for the high-band signal and the low-band signal,calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bits may be savedunder a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, and bitsthat are saved help to achieve an objective of reducing a transmissionbandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, thereby solving asuper-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

Embodiment 8

Referring to FIG. 9, this embodiment provides a system for processingaudio data, where the system includes the foregoing apparatus forencoding audio data and the foregoing apparatus for decoding audio data.

The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the presentdisclosure bring the following beneficial effects, a current noise frameof an audio signal is obtained, and the current noise frame isdecomposed into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal,then the noise low-band signal is encoded and transmitted using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal isencoded and transmitted using a second discontinuous transmissionmechanism. A decoder obtains an SID, and determines whether the SIDincludes a low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter, if the SIDincludes the low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noiselow-band parameter, locally generates a noise high-band parameter, andobtains a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter, if the SID includes the high-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generates a noiselow-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noiselow-band parameter, and if the SID includes the high-band parameter andthe low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter and the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding. In this way, different processingmanners are used for the high-band signal and the low-band signal,calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bits may be savedunder a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, and bitsthat are saved help to achieve an objective of reducing a transmissionbandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, thereby solving asuper-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

The apparatus and system provided by the embodiments may specificallybelong to the same idea as the method embodiments. The specificimplementation process of the apparatus and system has been described indetail in the method embodiments and details are not repeatedlydescribed herein.

The method and apparatus for processing audio data in the foregoingembodiments may be applied to an audio encoder or an audio decoder.Audio codecs may be widely applied to various electronic devices, suchas a mobile phone, a wireless apparatus, a personal data assistant(PDA), a handheld or portable computer, a global positioning system(GPS) receiver or navigation device, a camera, an audio/video player, acamcorder, a video recorder, and a surveillance device. Generally, suchan electronic device includes an audio encoder or an audio decoder. Theaudio encoder or decoder may be directly implemented using a digitalcircuit or chip, for example, a digital signal processor (DSP), orimplemented using software code to drive a processor to execute aprocedure in the software code.

A person of ordinary skill in the art may understand that all or a partof the steps of the embodiments may be implemented by hardware or aprogram instructing relevant hardware. The program may be stored in acomputer readable storage medium. The storage medium may include aread-only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.

The foregoing descriptions are merely exemplary embodiments of thepresent disclosure, but are not intended to limit the presentdisclosure. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvementmade without departing from the spirit and principle of the presentdisclosure shall fall within the protection scope of the presentdisclosure.

1. A method for processing an audio signal, comprising: receiving abitstream corresponding to the audio signal; decoding the bitstream toobtain a silence insertion descriptor (SID) type of a current frame ofthe audio signal and a low-band parameter of the current frame, whereinthe SID type of the current frame is either a first SID type or a secondSID type; obtaining a low-band signal of the current frame based on thelow-band parameter; obtaining, based on the SID type of the currentframe, a high-band parameter of the current frame by: generating thehigh-band parameter of the current frame locally when the SID type ofthe current frame is the first SID type; or decoding the bitstream whenthe SID type of the current frame is the second SID type; obtaining ahigh-band signal of the current frame based on the high-band parameter;and obtaining a synthesis signal of the current frame based on thelow-band signal and the high-band signal.
 2. The method according toclaim 1, wherein generating the high-band parameter of the current framelocally comprises: obtaining a weighted average energy parametercorresponding to the high-band signal; and obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the high-band signal.
 3. The method according to claim 2,wherein obtaining the weighted average energy parameter corresponding tothe high-band signal comprises: obtaining a low-band energy of thecurrent frame according to the low-band parameter; obtaining a firstratio between a high-band energy of a previous frame and a low-bandenergy of the previous frame, wherein the previous frame is of thesecond SID type; obtaining, according to the low-band energy of thecurrent frame and the first ratio, a high-band energy of the currentframe; and performing weighted averaging on the high-band energy of thecurrent frame and the high-band energy of the previous frame to obtainthe weighted average energy parameter.
 4. The method according to claim3, wherein obtaining the first ratio comprises obtaining a ratio betweenan instant high-band energy of the previous frame and an instantlow-band energy of the previous frame as the first ratio.
 5. The methodaccording to claim 3, wherein obtaining the first ratio comprisesobtaining a ratio between a weighted average high-band energy of theprevious frame and a weighted average low-band energy of the previousframe as the first ratio.
 6. The method according to claim 2, furthercomprising: obtaining a weighted average energy of a subsequent frame ofthe current frame when history frames of the audio signal adjacent tothe current frame are speech frames; and a part or average energy ofhigh-band signals of the speech frames is smaller than another part oraverage energy of other high-band signals that are generated locally,wherein the weighted average energy of the subsequent frame is obtainedby multiplying high-band signals of the subsequent frame by a smoothingfactor smaller than 1; and obtaining a synthesis signal of thesubsequent frame according to the weighted average energy of thesubsequent frame.
 7. A device for processing an audio signal,comprising: at least one processor; and one or more memories coupled tothe at least one processor and configured to store instructions forexecution by the at least one processor to cause the device to: receivea bitstream corresponding to the audio signal; decode the bitstream toobtain a silence insertion descriptor (SID) type of a current frame ofthe audio signal and a low-band parameter of the current frame, whereinthe SID type of the current frame is either a first SID type or a secondSID type; obtain a low-band signal of the current frame based on thelow-band parameter; obtain, based on the SID type of the current frame,a high-band parameter of the current frame by: generating the high-bandparameter of the current frame locally when the SID type of the currentframe is the first SID type; or decoding the bitstream when the SID typeof the current frame is the second SID type; obtain a high-band signalof the current frame based on the high-band parameter; and obtain asynthesis signal of the current frame based on the low-band signal andthe high-band signal.
 8. The device according to claim 7, wherein togenerate the high-band parameter of the current frame locally, theinstructions further cause the device to be configured to: obtain aweighted average energy parameter corresponding to the high-band signal;and obtain a synthesis filter coefficient of the high-band signal. 9.The device according to claim 8, wherein to obtain the weighted averageenergy parameter corresponding to the high-band signal, the instructionsfurther cause the device to be configured to: obtain a low-band energyof the current frame according to the low-band parameter; obtain a firstratio between a high-band energy of a previous frame and a low-bandenergy of the previous frame, wherein the previous frame is of thesecond SID type; obtain, according to the low-band energy of the currentframe and the first ratio, a high-band energy of the current frame; andperform weighted averaging on the high-band energy of the current frameand the high-band energy of the previous frame to obtain the weightedaverage energy parameter.
 10. The device according to claim 9, whereinto obtain the first ratio, the instructions further cause the device tobe configured to obtain a ratio between an instant high-band energy ofthe previous frame and an instant low-band energy of the previous frameas the first ratio.
 11. The device according to claim 9, wherein toobtain the first ratio, the instructions further cause the device to beconfigured to obtain a ratio between a weighted average high-band energyof the previous frame and a weighted average low-band energy of theprevious frame as the first ratio.
 12. The device according to claim 8,wherein the instructions further cause the device to be configured to:obtain a weighted average energy of a subsequent fame of the currentfame when history frames of the audio signal adjacent to the currentframe are speech frames and a part or average energy of high-bandsignals of the speech frames is smaller than another part or averageenergy of other high-band signals that are generated locally, whereinthe weighted average energy of the subsequent frame is obtained bymultiplying high-band signals of the subsequent frame by a smoothingfactor smaller than 1; and obtain a synthesis signal of the subsequentframe according to the weighted average energy of the subsequent frame.13. A computer program product comprising instructions that are storedon a non-transitory computer-readable medium and that, when executed bya processor of a device, cause the device to: receive a bitstreamcorresponding to an audio signal; decode the bitstream to obtain asilence insertion descriptor (SID) type of a current frame of an audiosignal and a low-band parameter of the current frame, wherein the SIDtype of the current frame is either a first SID type or a second SIDtype; obtain a low-band signal of the current frame based on thelow-band parameter; obtain, based on the SID type of the current frame,a high-band parameter of the current frame by: generating the high-bandparameter of the current frame locally when the SID type of the currentframe is the first SID type; or decoding the bitstream when the SID typeof the current frame is the second SID type; obtain a high-band signalof the current frame based on the high-band parameter; and obtain asynthesis signal of the current frame based on the low-band signal andthe high-band signal.
 14. The computer program product according toclaim 13, wherein to generate the high-band parameter of the currentframe locally, the instructions further cause the device to beconfigured to: obtain a weighted average energy parameter correspondingto the high-band signal; and obtain a synthesis filter coefficient ofthe high-band signal.
 15. The computer program product according toclaim 14, wherein to obtain the weighted average energy parametercorresponding to the high-band signal, the instructions further causethe device to be configured to: obtain a low-band energy of the currentframe according to the low-band parameter; obtain a first ratio betweena high-band energy of a previous frame and a low-band energy of theprevious frame, wherein the previous frame is of the second SID type;obtain, according to the low-band energy of the current frame and thefirst ratio, a high-band energy of the current frame; and performweighted averaging on the high-band energy of the current frame and thehigh-band energy of the previous frame to obtain the weighted averageenergy parameter.
 16. The computer program product according to claim15, wherein to obtain the first ratio, the instructions further causethe device to be configured to obtain a ratio between an instanthigh-band energy of the previous frame and an instant low-band energy ofthe previous frame as the first ratio.
 17. The computer program productaccording to claim 15, wherein to obtain the first ratio, theinstructions further cause the device to be configured to obtain a ratiobetween a weighted average high-band energy of the previous frame and aweighted average low-band energy of the previous frame as the firstratio.
 18. The computer program product according to claim 13, theinstructions further cause the device to be configured to: obtain aweighted average energy of a subsequent frame of the current frame; andobtain a synthesis signal of the subsequent frame according to theweighted average energy of the subsequent frame.
 19. The computerprogram product according to claim 18, wherein the instructions furthercause the device to be configured to obtain the weighted average energyof the subsequent frame when history frames of the audio signal adjacentto the current frame are speech frames and a part or average energy ofhigh-band signals of the speech frames is smaller than another part oraverage energy of other high-band signals that are generated locally.20. The computer program product according to claim 18, wherein theinstructions further cause the device to be configured to obtain theweighted average energy of the subsequent frame by multiplying high-bandsignals of the subsequent frame by a smoothing factor smaller than 1.